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11:23 PM ET Luka Doncic scored 50 points and dished out 19 assists on Friday night as the Dallas Mavericks defeated the Phoenix Suns 150-136. Well, not exactly. Soon after the decision was made Wednesday to suspend the NBA season because of the coronavirus outbreak, the Suns announced that their games would continue virtually. Friday

1:47 PM ET LATE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, there was a brief moment when people in the NBA felt like they had a plan. Facing concerns over the coronavirus outbreak, the Golden State Warriors had announced that they would host the Brooklyn Nets on Thursday with no fans at the Chase Center in San Francisco. Then, at

8:42 AM ET The NBA has suspended its season due to the spread of the coronavirus, and commissioner Adam Silver has stated the hiatus will last at least 30 days. On Sunday night, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported owners and executives are bracing for the possibility of mid-to-late June as a best-case scenario for a return.

5:01 PM ET In his first public comments since testing positive for COVID-19, Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert apologized on Instagram for his “careless” actions that exposed others to the disease, saying he hopes that his “story serves as a warning and causes everyone to take this seriously.” Gobert tested positive for coronavirus in Oklahoma

Mar 16, 2020 The NBA has suspended its season due to the spread of the coronavirus, and commissioner Adam Silver has said that the hiatus will last at least 30 days. On Sunday night, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported that owners and executives are bracing for the possibility of mid-to-late June as a best-case scenario for

4:27 PM ET Having discussed at length with NBA owners whether to take a hiatus due to the coronavirus safety concerns, commissioner Adam Silver said Thursday he opted to suspend the season shortly after canceling the Utah Jazz–Oklahoma City Thunder game on Wednesday night following Rudy Gobert‘s positive test for COVID-19. NBA owners have been

11:03 AM ET ESPN News Services Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell has tested positive for the coronavirus, league sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Mitchell becomes the second Jazz player to test positive for contracting the virus, along with Rudy Gobert, sources told Wojnarowski. Gobert’s diagnosis led to the postponement of Wednesday’s game against the Oklahoma

1:16 AM ET Brian Windhorst Close ESPN Senior Writer ESPN.com NBA writer since 2010 Covered Cleveland Cavs for seven years Author of two books Tim Bontemps Wednesday night saw the COVID-19 pandemic officially hit the NBA when Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for the coronavirus, causing the Jazz’s game against the Oklahoma City

9:38 PM ET The NBA announced that it has suspended its season until further notice after the completion of Wednesday night’s games after a member of the Utah Jazz has preliminarily tested positive for the coronavirus. The player is the Jazz’s Rudy Gobert, sources told ESPN. That led to the Jazz game at Oklahoma City

6:48 AM ET It was late January, and Adam Tatalovich was in Istanbul. The Chinese Basketball Association was midway through its season, and the Lunar New Year celebration had given the assistant coach of the Guangzhou Loong Lions the time to take a long weekend trip. The CBA traditionally takes a few days off for

1:59 PM ET ESPN News Services The Golden State Warriors are planning to play home games without fans for the foreseeable future in observance of the San Francisco Health Office’s order prohibiting events of 1,000 people or more from assembling, a source told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Wednesday. The Warriors host the Brooklyn Nets on

11:53 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN INDIANAPOLIS — After Victor Oladipo buried a pull-up 3-pointer for his fourth straight basket, cutting a 16-point Boston Celtics lead to three with 3:30 remaining on Tuesday at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, he balled his fists, walked back to center court and roared at the crowd. Nearly 17,000 fans in attendance

4:27 PM ET The Cleveland Cavaliers and coach J.B. Bickerstaff have agreed to a multiyear contract, the team announced Tuesday. Terms were not disclosed, but sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski that Bickerstaff agreed to a four-year deal that will take him through the 2023-24 season. Bickerstaff took over as head coach last month after Cleveland

7:18 PM ET ESPN News Services MIAMI — The NBA, NHL, MLB and MLS are closing access to locker rooms and clubhouses to all nonessential personnel in response to the coronavirus crisis, the leagues announced in a joint statement Monday night. The leagues said they made the decision “after consultation with infectious disease and public

7:20 AM ET IT’S MIDWAY THROUGH the second quarter of a Jan. 18 game between the Brooklyn Nets and Milwaukee Bucks, and Nets guard Spencer Dinwiddie is collecting himself after a hard foul and fall. As soon as he steps to the free throw line inside Barclays Center, the cheers echo from a corner of

8:38 AM ET Can anyone in the Western Conference catch the Memphis Grizzlies for the final playoff spot? On opening night, this would’ve been an unlikely question. With just over a month remaining in the regular season, four teams are looking to provide a different answer. What’s the prize for claiming the No. 8 seed?

11:16 PM ET DALLAS — Luka Doncic typically takes a shower before fulfilling his postgame media obligations, but he waited in full uniform for reporters to enter the Dallas Mavericks‘ locker room after Sunday night’s 112-109 loss to the Indiana Pacers. After his complaints to the referees didn’t receive the desired response, Doncic wanted to

7:58 PM ET LOS ANGELES — It started most mornings over the summer around 3:30 a.m. No matter if he was at the gym he had built for himself on the set of Space Jam 2 at the Warner Bros. studio lot in Burbank, or at the Los Angeles Lakers practice facility in El Segundo,